J FinK: "Look Lovey, The Iraqi's can't even tie their shoes correctly without Uday and Qusay's help.
Should we loan them my valet?"
However, the Iraqi Olympic delegation accused journalists of deliberately provoking an angry response from their players. “Our purpose is not to politicize the football team in any way,” Mark Clark, a consultant for the Iraqi Olympic Committee, said. “It seems the story was engineered.”
DUDE _ DUDETTE this is OLD news
Ungrateful sons of bitches.
Well, it is easy for them to talk...now. They have Americanized quite quickly in the fashion of exercising freedom of speech against those who help maintain it.
If you read the whole article, it implies that journalists manipulated the players and the story.
It is the first fair report of the incident that I have seen since it was first reported.
Iraqis are scum.
Give them an "F"!
Give them a "U"!
READ THIS -- the guys didn't even play!
http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/
IRAQ THE MODEL
Saturday, August 21, 2004
Hurray!
Iraqi football team won against Australia 1-0 to reach the semifinal for the first time in Iraq's history. Now we are going to play for a medal! Iraq has one medal only in her Olypic record; a bronze one that we won in weight-lifting back in 1960.
This is the *BEST* acheivment Iraq has ever acheived in soccer. Strange isn't it!? Not to me! I really expected that despite the difficult life in Iraq that our athletes were going to perform better than ever, and I believe it's the effect of freedom.
Right now there is lots of shooting into the air (I don't like it but at least Iraqis are happy and it's better to waste bullets this way).
I know some of our American friends are upset with the Iraqi team because of the latest comments of some players, but this is Iraq, not 1 or 2 players and the player who said these terrible words didn't even play! I wish you could forget that idiot and join us in our celebrations, as the truth must be said, it's a victory that you helped in in so many ways.
- posted by Omar @ 20:57
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J FinK: "Look Lovey, You can always get a quote or two like that if you really work at it. Did they poll the entire team? I don't think so.
Of course the athletes liked Saddam, they were treated like royalty until they lost, and than their heads were chopped off.
``Bush helps to destroy our country. After a year and a half, we have passed into a very bad situation. ... We'll never believe Bush can be with us.'' -- Iraqi coach Adnan Hamad
http://sports.yahoo.com/oly/soccer/news;_ylc=X3oDMTBpcTEybmJhBF9TAzk2NjcyOTgwBHNlYwN0bQ--?slug=ap-iraq-australiasoc&prov=ap&type=lgns
To say ungrateful would be euphemistic.
If it weren't for the global threat of radical muslims left unchecked getting their hands on WMDs, today and in the future (e.g. North Korea), we could say let them all kill each other in the desert sand...
AH don't blame the dumd soccer guys....after all the media have been tracking them down and forcing them to say trhings that are negative....cause they won't search out the good news ...you know that Iraq is actually in the olympics this year (oops I said olympics is the IOC going to sue me now)?
Give me a break.
So these happen to be Iraqi soccer players. I can't blame them if they don't want their presence at the Olympics politicized.
If President Bush is attending their event, I hope he's doing it because he enjoys the game.
It's bound to be a good one too. :-)